A Life of William Shakespeare (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Life of William ShakespeareI cannot promise my readers any startling revelations. But my researches have enabled me to remove some ambiguities which puzzled my predecessors, and to throw light on one or two topics that have hitherto obscured the course of Shakespeare's career. Particulars that have not been before incorporated in Shakespeare's biography will be found in my treatment of the following subjects the conditions under which Love's Labour's Lost and 'the Mer chant of Venice were written, the references in Shakespeare's plays to his native town and county, his father's applications to the Heralds' College for coat-armour, his relations with Ben Jonson and the boy-actors in 1601, the favour extended to his work by James I and his Court, the circumstances which led to the publication of the First Folio, and the history of the dramatist's portraits. I have somewhat expanded the notices of Shakespeare's financial affairs which have already appeared in the article in the Dictionary of National Biography, ' and a few new facts will be found in my revised estimate of the poet's pecuniary position.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.